Minneapolis garage-punk luminaries L'Assassins have more than made their mark on the Twin Cities music scene. They've notched two European tours along with several U.S. sojourns, and they're about to hit the road behind their new seven inch. A-side "Fire of Love" was written specifically for L'Assassins by Twin Cities new-wave king Chan Poling (The Suburbs). Their savage B-side "Liar" sees the band at the snarling top of their punk-rock game. These two songs cement L'Assassins' international reputation as bad-ass ladies making bad-ass music in the vein of Thee Headcoatees, Trashwomen and The Pandoras. 

When L'Assassins shared a bill with The Suburbs in the fall of 2014, lead singer Chan Poling had already become familiar with the band's amalgam of garage-surf-punk rooted in trashy B-movie culture. To their surprise, he approached them with a song he'd written with them in mind: "Fire of Love". L’Assassins and Poling quickly worked out an arrangement, and hit the studio with he and his Suburbs bandmate Steve Price producing. They also recorded the band’s own just-finished "Liar", supplemented by an organ part by Poling. The resulting record is an incendiary blast that slips perfectly into the rest of their four-year-strong catalog. 

Vocals: Tea Simpson 

Guitar, vocals: Monet Wong 

Bass, vocals: Ariel Dornbush 

Drums, vocals: Angela Clark

Just before the summer of 2015, the first EP of the North Limburg four-piece band Baltimore was reviewed on this site and Martijn Verlaak has informed us earlier this week about a recently recorded new song and a corresponding video clip.. We hope you will enjoy it!

ZOMBIE GIRL returns with a brand new studio album on Alfa Matrix and this in various formats. The band around Renee Cooper is the best selling act on Alfa Matrix, and that immediately since the debut album "Blood, Brains & Rock'n Roll" was released. This time she joined up with the production team consisting of Kurt Maas & Dave Rave Ogilvie to deliver more crunchy beats and dark atmospheres.

Did you survive her last “Panic Attack”? Well… your favorite ZOMBIE GIRL will make you bleed some more! This time, the undisputed singing siren of the living dead, and one of Alfa-Matrix's leading artists, ZOMBIE GIRL strikes back with her new full length album “Killer Queen” out on Halloween 2015…!!!

Produced & engineered by none other than the highly skilled and renowned duo team of Kurt Maas & Dave Rave Ogilvie, this new album invites you to open up and enjoy these new “ZBM” tunes going from catchy dance pop songs to harsher somber distorted tracks. Boosted by dancefloor guru Lawrie Bayldon (STUDIO-X)’s mastering skills, the electrifying “Killer Queen” shakes your stereo system to the max with ZOMBIE GIRL’s characteristic heavy vibrating basslines, addictive kinky grooves and that soooo unique hypnotizing female voice that keeps haunting you days and nights…

Fall under her spell, join her zombie army and let ZOMBIE GIRL guide you through her new nightmarish journey through the walking dead, made of tracks like the ultimate hellish dance of “Rave Of The Dead”, the killer industrial opener “Thorazine”, the bleeding elektro assault of “Panic Attack”, the tormented dark pop title-track “Killer Queen”, the almost filmatic hot S/M session of “Pleasure Games”, the apocalyptic slo-mo groove of “Dead Inside”, the late night psychedelic craziness of “Night Drive” or yet the much 80’s inspired lamenting love song from beyond the grave “Kiss Kiss Kiss”…

The album also gets augmented by cover versions of BERLIN’s classic “Pleasure Victim” and THE CURE’s unmatched, “Fascination Street”, next to 4 dancefloor compatible remixes: the instant future-pop club hit “Rave Of The Dead” by PRE:EMPTIVE STRIKE 0.1, the modern dance retake of “Dead Inside” by AESTHETISCHE label mates, the bombastic orchestral dark reinterpretation of the “Pleasure Games” sessions by Japanese cult act DIABOLIC ART (DJ Taiki) and a harsh and heavy guitar crossover sonic rape of the “Killer Queen” by mister HELL:SECTOR…The whole zombie adventure being visually immortalized by the unique Japanese designer Tomoki Hayasaka (www.sheerheart.jp)...

The new era from ZOMBIE GIRL has commenced… Get ready for the new ZBM! Go Zombie… Go Zombie… Go ZOMBIE GIRL! “Stay away from the dead… They've all gone wrong… gone wrong, wrong, WRONG!”

The album is also available in a deluxe 2CD carton box edition with a bonus disc including an exclusive collaboration with HELALYN FLOWERS (and guest backing vocals by n0emi) and other remix work by an eclectic selection of artists in the like of PSY’AVIAH, ACYLUM, SIMON CARTER, VENAL FLESH, LLUMEN, PAX SONO, AVARICE IN AUDIO, EEXXEE, CARDINAL NOIRE, BLACK NAIL CABARET, SHADES:OF:HELL, COMPLEX MIND, DIFFUZION…

With their fourth album guitarist Bert Dockx and his gang are creating atmospheric blues , Americana and claustrophobic gothic post-punk.

For this fourth album Night Is Long they worked for the third time in a row with producer Koen Gisen , that always ensures a rich , multi-layered listening experience. The CD presentation will take place on November 25 at the Handelsbeurs in Ghent.

>> Wed 11/25/15 : Flying Horseman (support : Get Your Gun )

De Beren Gieren are using the power of improvisation and are looking for something new. In his compositions pianist Fulco Ottervanger mixes classical and contemporary compositional techniques, without forgetting the roots of the jazz tradition. On 30^th Septemberthey they release their new album One Mirrors Many in Ghent at De Handelsbeurs. ( support act: SCHNTZL )